Most people experience an eerie sensation when they meet natural-looking artificial beings, especially humanoid robots. This is the “Uncanny Valley” effect, the psychological reaction of unease and ...

A new TikTok trend features users doing their makeup to appear like unsettling, humanoid creatures to invoke an uneasy feeling called the “uncanny valley,” which researchers believe is caused by ...

On the surface, creating humanoid robots makes a lot of sense. After all, we look at ourselves so much that interacting with something that has a similar appearance should be easier to accept into our ...

TikTok users are showing off their makeup skills with looks designed to make viewers feel uncomfortable in a very specific way. The trend is called “uncanny valley makeup,” and it stems from the ...

A young adult diagnosed with autism recently told me about how they are aware that, when interacting with peers and striving to act neurotypically, and even seemingly doing this well (they are an ...

Photorealistic faces in video games have been with us for a while, but they’ve still been a long way from what you’d call realistic. While we’ve got the polygons and texturing almost perfected, facial ...